About the Films/Trailers
When Las Vegas is hit by the epidemic, how will you tell the living from the dead? Teller (from the Penn & teller team) keeps a video diary of his experience after an epidemic infects the residents of Las Vegas causing them to decay and hunger for flesh.
Directed by:
Teller
Ezekiel Zabrowski
Frank Ippolito
& TELLER 2
With the whole world dead, will love still find a way? This story details the second installment of Teller’s (from the Penn & Teller team) video diary after an epidemic infects the residents of Las Vegas. The second part of Teller’s video diary follows his interactions with one of the infected residents in the desert outside of the city limits.
Produced and Directed by:
Frank Ippolito
Ezekiel Zabrowski
Teller
CHEMICAL 12-D
Winner for Best Short Film
In a post apocalyptic world, Dr. Michael Frank searches for specimen in an attempt to find the answers both he and the world have been searching for.
Directed by Mac Eldridge
COOKIE MONSTER ROAST
Clay animated comedy from one of the animators of MTV’S CELEBRITY DEATHMATCH featuring caricatures of Sesame Street characters - but this Roast is not ready for prime time.
Directed and Animated by Matt Somma
DOMINATION: RELLIK VS. THE BLACK ROSE KILLER
This is a short film created to kick off the Hudson Horror Show. A camper’s worst nightmare comes true. The short pits Light & Dark Productions’ Rellik in a duel to the death with the Black Rose Killer.
Directed by Glen Baisley
Starring Mike Lane (THE BLOOD SHED and THE TENEMENT)
DRACULA’S DAUGHTERS VS. THE SPACE BRAINS
Winner for Best Director
Dracula’s Daughter’s vs. The Space Brains (starring Neil Patrick Harris) takes the classic tale of the vampire and launches it into space. Two vampire sisters, Marketa and Marya are the stars of a Ballet troupe touring small towns across America. It’s the perfect cover to feed on the young men that attend the shows. But when a meteor crashes to earth, and an alien life form infects and possesses an entire town, Marketa and Marya find that they have bitten off more than they can chew. Now Marketa must find untainted human blood to save her sister before her brain hatches from her head and flies away. Will she make it, or has the sunset for the final time on the realm of the vampire?
Directed by:
Frank Ippolito
Ezekiel Zabrowski
THE EVIL DEAD
35mm Film
Five friends go up to a cabin in the woods where they find unspeakable evil lurking in the forest. They find the Necronomicon and the taped translation of the text. Once the tape is played, the evil is released. One by one, the teens become deadly zombies. With only one remaining, it is up to him to survive the night and battle the evil dead.
Directed by Sam Raimi
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD: REANIMATED
Feature Film
Night of the Living Dead: REANIMATED features the work of various artists, animators, and filmmakers from around the globe. The mixed media featured include puppetry, CGI, hand-drawn animation, illustration, acrylics, claymation, and even ‘animated’ tattoos, just to name a few. This mass-collaboration approach is less about remaking Romero’s film and more about viewing the classic through an experimental lens. Instead of trying to alter Image Ten’s work, NOTLD:R seeks to showcase the responses that artists from around the world have had to this landmark film.
Directed by Mike Schneider
NO TRESPASSING 2: NO EXIT
John and Misty find that they aren’t the only ones who are trespassing once they break into the Fairview Falls House of Horrors.
Directed by Glen Baisley
Starring Mike Lane (THE BLOOD SHED and THE TENEMENT)
PARTY GIRL
Based on the shorty story featured in Dustin LaValley’s fiction collection Lowlife Underdogs.
Directed by Dustin LaValley
PIECES
35mm Film
A chainsaw-weilding mania goes on a a rampage on an East coast college campus and he’s after sexy co-eds. Tormented by childhood memories and a severe case of libindinal rejection from his mother, a killer begins to assemble his own jigsaw puzzle made from real human body parts.
Directed by Jaun Piquer Simon
THE GROWTH
Winner for Best Special FX
Starring Dean Cameron, star of SUMMER SCHOOL, BAD DREAMS and ROCKULA. In a bedroom, in a small house…terror grows. Bill is a man who wants to be a good father but finds the task a lot more demanding after he is bitten by his date. Now confined to his room with a strange growth on his shoulder, he must find away to survive. Passing
closer to the point death with each minute, Bills family and friends only intensify the gruesome nightmare he is living.
“The Growth” is infected with state-of-the-art special effects that make the skin crawl and the stomach turn. And features and ending that will have you writhing in your seat.
Directed by:
Frank Ippolito
Ezekiel Zabrowski
Special Fx by Frank Ippolito (CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK and PIRATES OF THE CARRIBEAN: DEAD MAN’S CHEST)
THE LYCANTHROPE
Winner for Best Actor – Damani Rivers
After waking up in bed next to an eviscerated female corpse, Jonah becomes convinced that he is a Werewolf that goes on murderous, flesh-eating binges during the full moon. Desperate to end the cycle of killing, Jonah calls his best friend, Harris, and asks him to kill him to prevent the slaughter of any more innocent victims.
Directed by Lucas Peltonen
Special Makeup FX by Gerner & Spears Effects (STAKE LAND and I SELL THE DEAD)
STEPHEN ROMANO’S SHOCK FESTIVAL TRAILERS
GIRLKILLER – Winner for Best Trailer
Directed by Michael Gingold, Managing Editor of Fangoria Magazine
Starring Ian McCulloch
Dead Bugs on the Carpet
Dark Night of the Demon House
Devil Sister
Evolver
Toolshed of the Living Dead
TOXIK: THINK AGAIN
The first ever DVD of legendary cult metal masters Toxik. Toxik was arguably the most successful heavy metal band from the New York Hudson Valley to emerge on the international 80’s thrash scene. The band recorded two stellar studio albums and played concerts worldwide with the likes of King Diamond, Pantera, Sepultura, Exodus and others before disbanding in 1992. Think Again is their story.
Produced by Tad Leger
ZOMBIE
35mm Film
A zombie is found aboard a boat off the New York coast which belongs to a famous scientist. Peter West, a journalist, travels to the Antilles with Anne, the daughter of the scientist. On the way, they meet with with Brian, a ethnologist, and Susan. When they arrive at Matul Island, they find Dr. Menard, and discover a terrifying disease which is turning the islanders into horrifying zombies which devour human flesh and seem indestructible.
Directed by Lucio Fulci
BONUS MIDNIGHT MOVIE
At the eleventh hour and due to recent events in music history, Hudson Horror Show Inc. has secured a bonus movie to immediately follow the screening of Evil Dead and the entire Hudson Horror Show Festival.
This movie is NOT a horror movie, but it is an extremely rare concert movie from the early 80’s, details of which will not be divulged until show time. This movie will be presented via a very rare and somewhat worn 35mm film print. The film will start at approximately 11:30PM and will run until 1AM. This additional bonus movie will be presented free of charge and patrons of the Hudson Horror Show are invited to stay for this bonus concert movie if they so choose.
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